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The Heart of Sex Problems
Men with diabetes who also have trouble getting an erection may have heart disease and not realise it
, say Italian doctors.
A study is among the first to document what some doctors had predicted with the advent of drugs to treat erectile dysfunction that they would help flush out men with heart disease but no serious symptoms apart from erectile dysfunction.
If our findings are confirmed, erectile dysfunction may become a
potential marker to identify diabetic patients to screen for silent
coronary artery disease
, said Carmine Gazzaruso of Maugeri
Foundation Hospital in Pavia, who led the study.
In the study 33.8% of men with Type 2 diabetes and silent coronary artery disease had erectile dysfunction, compared with 4.7% of men who had Type 2 diabetes but not heart disease.
Published on this website on Thu, 04 Nov 2010